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42. According to the information presented in the
41. - 43. soruları aşağıdaki parçaya göre passage, when Australia became involved in
cevaplayınız. the land mines problem, ----.

In the 1990s, the elimination of land mines A) its military was ready to stop using land mines
became a central issue in Australia’s foreign
policy. In 1997, Australia decided unilaterally to B) the first thing to do was to sign an
discontinue the manufacture and military use of international treaty
land mines, most of which are meant to maim C) it acted with several other countries in getting
rather than kill. Australia actively promoted the rid of its land mines
Mine Ban Treaty, which more than 120 countries
signed in 1997. The treaty became international D) it had already stopped producing and using
law in 1999, although the United States, Russia, land mines
and China did not participate. Australia still E) this issue became the top priority in the
promotes the treaty, as well as involving in mine- country’s foreign affairs
clearing efforts around the world.

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41. What is the main purpose of the passage? 43. It is stated in the passage that though several
A) To show the type of harm that land mines will big countries kept out of the international
agreement, ----.
give
B) To inform the readers about the efforts of a A) mine-clearing efforts were greatly prevented
single country to take action against land B) the treaty became ineffective
mines
C) Australia became the only country to stand
C) To display land mine clearing activities world- against land mines
wide in the 1990s in general
D) Australia focused its attention on persuading
D) To explain why some countries that keep on them
manufacturing and using land mines
E) this did not discourage Australia in its efforts
E) To inform the readers why an international
treaty over the land mines problem has failed

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